“Martin Luther did more for the Kingdom of Heaven than anybody else since the Apostle Paul.”
The Catholic Church today has tremendous problems and obstacles, but has retained most of its core principles. Martin Luther himself would not even recognize what passes for “Lutheran” today; do you see any of his positions in it? Yet everyone professing that faith that has passed on has faced the final judgment; can they attain the Kingdom of Heaven? Many branches of Lutheranism allow openly gay clergy and “gay marriage”.
Get back to us when the Vatican weeds out its own homosexual, child molesting cabal of clergy.
While they in theory oppose gay clergy and homosexual marriage by what their *official* doctrine says, in practice they are even worse because of their handling of the multitude of reports of molestation by priests.
Nobody gives a rip what *official* doctrine is when in practice they show that they don’t either.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
“The Catholic Church today has tremendous problems and obstacles, but has retained most of its core principles.”
Are you really sure about that?
1 . Prayers for the dead . …………-—————————……300 A.D.
2. Making the sign of the cross ………………………… …300 A.D.
3. Veneration of angels & dead saints …………-————…….375 A.D.
4. Use of images in worship………………………………… . 375 A.D.
5. The Mass as a daily celebration……………………………… 394 A.D.
6 Beginning of the exaltation of Mary; the term, “Mother of God” applied a Council of Ephesus……………. .-————431 A.D.
7 Extreme Unction (Last Rites)……………………………… ..526 A.D.
8. Doctrine of Purgatory-Gregory 1…………………………… .593 A.D..
9. Prayers to Mary & dead saints ……………………………… .600 A.D.
10. Worship of cross, images & relics ……………………… … 786 A.D.
11 Canonization of dead saints ………………………………… ..995 A.D.
12. Celibacy of priesthood …………………………………… …1079 A.D.
13. The Rosary ……………………………………………… … 1090 A.D.
14. Indulgences ……………………………………………… …..1190 A.D.
15. Transubstantiation-Innocent III …………………………… 1215 A.D.
16. Auricular Confession of sins to a priest …… 1215 A.D.
17. Adoration of the wafer (Host)…………………………… .. 1220 A.D.
18. Cup forbidden to the people at communion ……..1414 A.D.
19. Purgatory proclaimed as a dogma………..1439 A.D.
20. The doctrine of the Seven Sacraments confirmed .1439 A.D.
21 Tradition declared of equal authority with Bible by Council of Trent…………………………………………————————… 1545 A.D.
22. Apocryphal books added to Bible ………——————……….1546 A.D.
23. Immaculate Conception of Mary……………………………….1854 A.D.
24, Infallibility of the pope in matters of faith and morals, proclaimed by the Vatican Council ……………… 1870 A.D.
25. Assumption of the Virgin Mary (bodily ascension into heaven shortly after her death)——————————————……1950 A.D.
26. Mary proclaimed Mother of the Church……………………1965 A.D.
and added a lot more.
Cardinal Hugo http://fatima.org/crusader/cr38/cr38pg3.asp Translation: "that those who do not serve Mary will not be saved; for those who are deprived of the help of this great Mother are also deprived of that of Her Son and of the whole court of heaven."
26. "Gens quæ non servierit illi, peribit; gentes destitutæ tantæ Matris auxilio, destituuntur auxilio Filii et totius curi’ coelestis."— De Laud. B. M. I. 4.